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wikihopping 

Following hyperlinks from topic to topic on Wikipedia as you continually come across concepts you want to explore in more detail. It usually results in simulatenously exploring multiple deep threads of related topics, but ending up in various places far from where you began.
I starting reading about Money Creation on wikipedia, and after wikihopping for an hour ended up reading about famous modern cases of Japanese ritual suicide. True Story.
wikihopping by dodgo December 29, 2008
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Wikihopping 

The act of traversal over many Wikipedia pages, typically to pages that are contained in the initial page you went to read.
Today i was wikihopping so much that i started reading a page on Samuel Clemens and ended up on a reading a page on the war atrocities by Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese war. (Via Mark Twain->Vivisection->Human Experimentation-> Second Sino-Japanese War)
Wikihopping by Stoyadoll42 June 28, 2010
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Wishopping 

Shopping for a wished-for product or service, either on-line or IRL.
I saw my cube mate wishopping for a new house yesterday.
I tried wishopping for some dicpics on YouTube, but I'll have to try somewhere else. . .

Wikihowing 

"What are you doing?"
"Wikihowing."

girl grip 

The ability girls and women have developed to hold several items at once in one hand. The skill has been developed due to the lack of pockets in women's clothing.
I thought she'd need multiple trips to carry her phone, keys, wallet, and Starbucks to her car since she needed the other hand to open the door, but she used her impressive girl grip to carry everything in one hand.
girl grip by SillyMilly33 July 31, 2023
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Condiment home

A term that refers to one persons household hold nothing but ingredients and condiments in the kitchen area
Person A: Hey dude you got some snacks?
Person B: Nah, i live in a fucking condiment home...
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bang a you-ee 

of Massachusetts orig. "to make a u-turn"
hey, we missed the bar, bang a you-ee
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